Synopsis An original short story by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sharon Sala links to her full-length contemporary women’s fiction novel, The Curl Up and Dye. The novella centers around the four women who run the Curl Up and Dye hair salon and their relationships with the quirky customers of small-town Blessings, […]
Category: humor
Synopsis What if the most influential book in the history of mankind was not a religious or spiritual book but a satire of a self-help book written by a crazy person? All Daniel Waterstone ever wanted to do was write the great American novel and change the landscape of modern literature forever. He has two literary […]
Happy Thanksgiving from StoreyBook Reviews
November 28, 2013
I just want to wish all of my readers a very Happy Thanksgiving. Don’t eat too much turkey as to end up in the turkey coma! I will be back with my regularly scheduled reviews and such on Friday (unless I’m in that turkey coma!)
Title: Mommy Couldn’t Find Her Eyelashes Author: Mary Jane Fizer Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Biography/Memoir Pages: 110 No one knows how unpredictable first graders can be better than a first-grade teacher. In Mommy Couldn’t Find Her Eyelashes, retired elementary educator Mary Jane Fizer shares excerpts from written papers and some of her favorite amusing and […]
I decided to start a new monthly feature on my blog called BCB which is short for Book Club Book. I have a great group of friends that gather once a month and discuss books from the serious to the light-hearted. j For November, we read The Secret Life of Copernicus H. Stringfellow: Surreptitious Superhero […]
Mystery Monday: Sticks & Stones by K.J. Larsen @KJLarsenauthor
November 4, 2013
Quite a while ago I posted about the first book, Liar, Liar, by the three sisters that make up author K.J. Larsen. Ummm, should I saw that was in 2010 and I’m just now getting around to the second book, Sticks and Stones? No? Well it is out there now. I remember LOVING the first […]
Synopsis The Barber’s Conundrum and Other Stories is a collection of humor essays that address every day life including parenting (The School Project: An American Tragedy), relationships (How Bananas Almost Destroyed My Marriage), religion (If We’re Late Again for Church, I Will Kill You), the media (There But for the Grace of God Goes […]
Spotlight: The Zapp Imbroglio by Jos Van Brussell
August 25, 2013
Synopsis: Zack Zapp and Milton Burdass-Nuttall, two unemployed young poops, are tricked into signing up as priests by a fast-talking church recruiter, who forgot to mention priests don’t date. Enjoying a night out on the town, they are secretly filmed kissing the same lemon-haired girl, the footage posted on her site. When Zack next […]
Review: Emily’s Ronda Romance by Michelle Cameron
August 4, 2013
Synopsis: When Emily is rudely woken from a blissful dream on a beautiful beach with her lover, and told she’s on air with her local radio station diskjockeys, she does what any normal woman would do. She fakes it, and pretends she was already awake. The competition to win an engagement ring has been drawn, […]
Synopsis: Determined to seek his fortune, Percival Taylor leaves behind his sleepy hometown and sets out to become a legendary pirate—only no one at the roguish seaport of Blackshore will allow him any- where near a ship! Percival must find other means to win the heart of the beautiful Tuppence Magrathia-Paddock, who has mistaken him […]